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After all our plans to have a Welsh freshwater bumble down at Bosherston today, the weather threw a spanner in the works and the boys from the valleys were stranded (lightweights!) with a bit of snow. Luckily, us English are made of sterner stuff, and George and I made our way to Bosherston for midday today (Sunday). No snow anywhere in evidence in Pembrokeshire, in fact it was a perfect sunny and very still day - like the 1st day of spring! Having never lure fished for pike, and no pike specific lures or wire traces George and I started working our way around the lakes seeing if any of our bass lures would interest the pike. We spoke to a few guys (and realised we weren't wearing nearly enough camouflage gear!) and got the impression that whilst it was a slow day there were a few fish being caught. We saw a chap land a small pike whilst we were having a break and this spurred us on afresh. George and I were fishing adjacent pegs albeit 80 yards apart when I got the call he had a fish on. I ran hard to get to his peg for some photos and to spectate and when I arrived the fight was almost over. George had the fish, estimated at around 6lb to the bank when he made a "soft release" - his fish clearly didn't fancy a photo call. Disappointed to not have the fish to hand and yet bouyed to have hooked his first pike on a Storm sidewinder shad we pressed on.
At the end of the lake near the beach, I made a lure change to a floating Crystal Minnow in Red Head and on my second cast got nailed. Great - fish on and string pulled, mission accomplished. George came across to help me land the fish - no worry I said it feels like a small one (equivalent to a 3lb bass on my Quantum Energy Bass rod). Ooops - wrong! When I saw the fish I realised it was bigger than I expected and quite a respectable fish. Anyhow, fish landed, completely engulfed lure removed and fish revived after the photo call with an audience of dog walkers and kids! Me and George chuffed to bits as we had caught our first fish of 2010 which also happened to be our first lure caught pike on our first attempt!
I hope we can get a few lads together and do this again as it is a beautiful spot and the afternoon flew by.
Can anyone help guess how big it was? We had no way to weigh or measure the fish and having no frame of reference we don't know how what size it was. Guesses please!
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At the end of the lake near the beach, I made a lure change to a floating Crystal Minnow in Red Head and on my second cast got nailed. Great - fish on and string pulled, mission accomplished. George came across to help me land the fish - no worry I said it feels like a small one (equivalent to a 3lb bass on my Quantum Energy Bass rod). Ooops - wrong! When I saw the fish I realised it was bigger than I expected and quite a respectable fish. Anyhow, fish landed, completely engulfed lure removed and fish revived after the photo call with an audience of dog walkers and kids! Me and George chuffed to bits as we had caught our first fish of 2010 which also happened to be our first lure caught pike on our first attempt!
I hope we can get a few lads together and do this again as it is a beautiful spot and the afternoon flew by.
Can anyone help guess how big it was? We had no way to weigh or measure the fish and having no frame of reference we don't know how what size it was. Guesses please!
